Draft Outline For Responsible Innovation Workshop, April / May 2011

Franco-British workshop on responsible innovation London, 23-24 May 2011
Richard OWEN
Chair in Responsible Innovation, Environment and Health - University of Exeter Business School
Professor Owen holds a Chair in Responsible Innovation, Environment and Health at the University of Exeter
Business School, where he sits in the School of Management. He holds a joint appointment with the European
Centre for Environment and Human Health. His primary research involves understanding the responsible
emergence of disruptive innovation and new technologies in democratic society. He has worked closely with
the UK Research Councils in this regard, including current funding from ESRC and EPSRC to develop a
Responsible Innovation Framework for operational use by them. In previous roles he led on emerging risks in
his capacity as Head of Environment and Human Health at the Environment Agency (UK) and as Chair of the
OECD Steering Group on Risk Assessment of Nanomaterials. He has a background in risk assessment,
governance and regulation, working at the interface between disciplines to support national and international
policy development.
Xavier PAVIE
Researcher and Lecturer in innovation management and strategy at ESSEC Business School
Xavier Pavie is the Executive Director of the Institute for Service Innovation & Strategy (ESSEC). Graduate in
business science as well as in philosophy, Mr. Pavie has held executive position in leading companies such as
Unilever and Nestlé for fifteen years. After several years as a Marketing Director at Club Med especially
focusing on innovation, he has decided to join academia to strengthen the team of ESSEC in innovation
management.
Mr. Pavie's publications and public appearances emphasise philosophical approaches on responsibleinnovation
as a source of innovation and performance. He published several articles and books in philosophy
(about spirituals exercises) and also in innovation.
Dominique PECCOUD
Former Special Adviser to the Director-General of the International Labour Organization for Socio-Religious
affairs (1996-2008)
Dominique Peccoud, a French Jesuit born in 1946, has been Special Adviser to the Director-General of the
International Labour Organization for Socio-Religious affairs from 1996 to 2008. In addition to this position, he
was in charge of managing relations between the ILO and Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs).
A member of the French Academy of Agriculture and of the French National Academy of Engineering,
D. Peccoud advises public and private organizations on the ethical dimensions of social and economic issues
regarding the application of new technologies. Prior to joining the ILO, he was President of a technological
graduate school in Toulouse (France). Earlier times he was lecturing at the PARIS VII University and was
headmaster of the "Ecole Sainte Geneviève", a famous college in Versailles.
Dr. Peccoud holds a doctorate in theoretical computer science from the Sorbonne in Paris and master's
degrees in philosophy and theology.
Judith PETTS
Dean of Social and Human Sciences - University of Southampton
Professor Judith Petts is Dean of Social and Human Sciences at the University of Southampton a post she has
held since October 2010. The Faculty is a £55m activity crossing subjects as diverse as Maths and Social Policy
with over 5000 students and 450 staff. Prior to this she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge
Transfer, at the University of Birmingham (2007-10) and Head of the School of Geography, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, from 2001-2007. She was also Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and
Training, and as at Southampton, held the Chair of Environmental Risk Management. Prior to joining
Birmingham (1999) she was Director of the Centre for Hazard and Risk Management, Loughborough
University.
Judith has over 30 years applied strategic interdisciplinary research experience in the broad area of
environmental risk management Her research spans three primary areas: environmental governance and
policy-making, science-society relationships, and public perceptions, responses and behavior. She has acted as
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